Iowa courts

Miranda Rights include a right to an attorney, but that right doesn't mean that an attorney will be free in states like Iowa. A Marshall Project investigation found Iowa imposes some of the highest fees in the nation.

A bill in the Iowa House would make booking photos confidential in most cases, until a person is actually convicted or pleads guilty to a crime.

U.S. District Court Judge Stephanie Rose declared the gender balance requirement violates the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment, and ordered the state court administrator to stop enforcing it for elections to the State Judicial Nominating Commission.

Prosecutors in one of Iowa's biggest counties are working longer hours to try and keep up in the face of shortages across the state. The head of the state bar association says the issue is "multifaceted."

The ruling means Iowa officials cannot enforce a ban on books with sexually explicit content. It also blocks a ban on K-6 instruction related to sexual orientation and gender identity.

Two lawsuits aim to block the state from enforcing SF 496, which bans books with sexual content and prohibits instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity in K-6.

Jeremy Goodale, one of the two Fairfield teenagers who pleaded guilty for the murder of Nohema Graber, must serve 25 years before the possibility of parole.

In a ruling issued Monday, Polk County Judge Michael Huppert wrote state lawmakers “overstepped” their authority by going against an Iowa Supreme Court ruling and attempting to legalize warrantless garbage searches by police.

A teenager was found guilty on Thursday of second-degree murder and manslaughter in the deaths of two students that he shot at Starts Right Here earlier this year.

Iowa abortion providers filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to block enforcement of a ban on most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy. Gov. Kim Reynolds is scheduled to sign the ban into law Friday.